A developer preview of the new operating system is now available, and a public beta for iOS users is set for release later this month. As Amazon has a three year lead - closer to four by the time HomePod comes out in December - Apple faces a tough challenge in tempting curious consumers away from the ubiquitous cylinder, particularly as the Echo retails for £150 and HomePod will be $349 (UK price pending).

The president "never told Mr Comey "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty" in form or substance", attorney Marc Kasowitz said, rejecting a key allegation made by the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director before a Senate panel. On May 17, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein did exactly that, appointing Mueller to the position of special counsel. One thing is for sure, Comey's testimony was anything but boring.

Trump spoke Tuesday with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to discuss the situation . Qatar hosts the Al-Udeid military base , the largest USA airbase in the Middle East. "At this stage, we note that there are numerous uncertainties regarding Qatar's response, the extent to which these measures will be imposed, and their longevity", said the credit rating agency.

The device comes equipped with Siri and shares the iPhone 6 processor, Apple's A8 chip . Apple is taking aim at Amazon's Echo . The HomePod will take on Amazon's Echo (left) and Google Home (right). The speaker, while expected by some industry watchers, marked Apple's first new product announcement since the Apple Watch in September 2014. It also said that Siri in HomePod can do the same things "she" does in the iPhone or the iPad.

The consumer electronics giant envisages households interacting with the system regarding everyday information, such as weather or traffic, effectively providing a service that essentially makes life easier for consumers. Furthermore, two separate HomePods will automatically sync meaning that this is a smart, flexible and intuitive system. The device will work with a user's Apple Music subscription.

Bahrain's Information Affairs Ministry said Thursday that those who do publish material sympathetic to Qatar "will be held responsible", without elaborating. Qatar's rulers were "trying to describe this as an issue about the independence of their foreign policy, and it is not", he said. Chad, a predominantly Muslim country, joins the West African nations of Senegal and Mauritania, which have also recalled their ambassadors from Qatar.

Apple only launched a third-party API for Siri in 2016, but developers have complained that it's too restrictive to do anything useful. Like the Amazon Echo and Google Home, the HomePod will play music while also helping people to manage their lives and homes.

Saudi Arabia has also closed its land borders with Qatar , geographically isolating the tiny Gulf state. An outspoken member of Qatar's ruling family, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, said his citizens were "questioning if this is going to end up in seeing a change in leadership itself".

The suspect shot and killed himself after shooting his former co-workers this morning at Fiamma, a company that manufactures awnings and accessories for RVs, authorities said. Authorities said the victim of that battery incident was not among those found dead. The employee had a criminal history "minor in nature", with arrests for possession of marijuana and DUI.

However, if a hung parliament forces a cross-party compromise it could lead to a softer Brexit strategy, and may turn out to be positive in the long run after some serious initial confusion. The exit poll forecast the Scottish National Party (SNP) would win 34 seats, the centre-left Liberal Democrats 14, the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru three and the Greens one.

The pound lost more than 2 cents against the dollar within seconds of the exit poll result, plunging from $1.2955 to $1.2752 late Thursday. Speaking about her party's results, Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon said she would be open to a progressive alliance that would end Conservative rule.

The White House won't say that President Donald Trump made a typo while tweeting very early Wednesday morning. She was of course referencing the president's incoherent, late-night tweet on Tuesday, which stated: 'Despite the constant negative press covfefe '.

The Amazon Echo and Google Home are both smart assistants that happen to play music, but the HomePod's main calling is clearly to be the king of voice-controlled music. "We completely reimagined how a speaker should make music in the home". You also can ask other Siri queries, such as news headlines, the weather, sports scores and more.

But it's a lot cheaper than the iPhone , which starts at $649 and is now the main way people access Siri . Pete Williams, spokesman for the RAC's BePhoneSmart campaign, said: "These days it is less phone calls and more the pings and buzzes of texts and social media apps that have the potential to distract a driver from the task at hand".

South Korea says the missile flew around 280 miles - the latest in a series of long and short-range tests defying global pressure and threats of more sanctions. The latest launch demonstrates the North's determination to secure more leverage in any future negotiations with the United States, said Cho Han-Bum, analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification .

He said he ran upstairs to her apartment and saw the stabbed child and found her sister in the closet, shaking. The two survivors underwent surgery and were stable Monday afternoon, a Colton police spokesman said. The girl told police that her mother had tried to suffocate her the night before. But after the plea a judge ruled that she was not guilty of the two attempted murders by reason of insanity, local news media outlets reported in 2007.

Apple also announced refreshes to the iMac, the MacBook Pro and the iMac during WWDC . It is, of course, an AiO and it is based around a chassis holding a 27-inch Retina 5K display. Design-wise, nothing has changed in the new MacBook Pro. iMac Pro also supports up to 4TB of SSD and up to 128GB of ECC memory, and with four Thunderbolt 3 ports can connect to up to two high-performance RAID arrays and two 5K displays at the same time.

For the election to produce a majority government, the biggest party theoretically must win at least 326 seats of the 650 United Kingdom constituencies. May had hoped the election would focus on Brexit, but that never happened, as both the Conservatives and Labour said they would respect voters' wishes and go through with the divorce.

India becoming a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization could be geopolitically beneficial. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a two day visit to Astana for the SCO summit on June 8-9. According to a source in Astana , Modi enquired about Sharif's health after an open heart surgery in London in May previous year. I look forward to deepening India's association with the SCO which will help us in economic, connectivity and counter-terrorism cooperation, among other things.

When Sen. Marco Rubio (R. -Fla) pressed Comey to agree that the president is not now under investigation, the former FBI director agreed. In a statement, The Times said, "Neither the F.B.I., nor Mr. Comey speak honesly and openly about his actions with President Trump, despite the president's efforts to contradict and disparage him", Murray said.

They simply use voice recognition to understand the query and respond to them by fetching information or data from the internet or connected local devices. These speakers aren't just some random speakers but they are advanced and built to give you the sheer sound experience. At a much steeper price , putting a HomePod in every room would be prohibitively expensive for most customers.

It will be available for all models of the iPad Air and iPad Pro , as well as for the iPhone 5s and up, 5th-generation iPad, 6th-generation iPod touch, and iPad mini 2 and up. You can tap Enable to turn the feature on. Pressing the border between the two apps and dragging it towards the centre of the screen turns Slide Over into Split View, which equally splits the two apps down the centre of the screen.

Kuwait's emir traveled to Qatar to help mediate an end to a crisis that's seen Arab nations cut ties to the energy-rich nation home to a major USA military base, though Emirati officials warned there was "nothing to negotiate". The UAE and Saudis, seen as the driving force behind the push for a change in Qatar's foreign policy, claim they were let down in 2014 when, after a previous démarche, Qatar allegedly reneged on a commitment to rein its support for political Islam.

Qatar has denied the allegations. S&P said it expects Qatar's economic growth to slow, as regional trade falls and corporate profitability declines in the face of reduced confidence. The crisis will have wide-ranging consequences, not just for Qatar and its citizens, but across the Middle East and for Western interests. Some 10,000 military personnel are stationed at the Al-Udeid airbase.

The free update will ship this fall, and is compatible with all systems that support Sierra . Apple claims that this feature is 80% faster than the popular Google Chrome browser. The new update features better organization, looped Live Photos , and new Memories categories. If your device can run macOS Sierra, the good news is that it will be able to run macOS High Sierra as well.

What that means is that if they lose their overall majority then they don't rate their chances of forming a government by going into coalition with another party (because most of the others wouldn't do it). A BBC projection has forecast 261 seats for Labour , up 29 compared with its 2015 result. Liberal Democrats were celebrating the return of former ministers Sir Vince Cable, Sir Ed Davey and Jo Swinson two years after they lost their parliamentary seats.

During the last election , in 2015, the Conservatives did better than the exit poll predicted, and senior Conservatives said they would take a wait-and-see approach. He was, for instance, nearly immediately branded as "disloyal" when he allegedly didn't sing the national anthem at Second World War commemoration ceremony.

The pound fell sharply amid fears the Conservative leader will be unable to form a government and could even be forced out of office after a troubled campaign overshadowed by two terror attacks. Meanwhile the Scottish National Party of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon , which has dominated politics north of the border for a decade and called for a new independence vote after Brexit, was tipped to lose around 21 of its 54 seats.

The iMac Pro will start at $4,999. You'll have to turn the screen around to see the most significant physical difference between the two: the iMac Pro has two extra I/O ports. The updated iMac features faster Kaby Lake processors up to 4.2 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 4.5 GHz and supports up to twice the memory as the previous generation.